This month saw Artful Dodger and Craig David reunite on what was both artists 3rd Top 40 hit with "Woman Trouble". Truth be told Craig David doesn't sing much on this record with the bulk of the vocals coming from Robbie Craig. It's a great record and good enough to be the best record this month.
Ever since the acid house days of the late 80s the holiday destination that went hand in hand with dance music was Ibiza. The rapid rise of UK garage in the year 2000 meant Ayia Napa was now being talked about just as much. One garage record that you can't help but think of Ayia Napa when hearing is "Summer of Love" by Lonyo. Another decent garage record this month was "Neighbourhood" by Zed Bias. As with any genre that's hugely popular there's some cheesy rubbish too. This month is comes from Shanks & Bigfoot who followed up their previous years chart topper with "Sing A Long" which sounds just as silly.
There wasn't a bad trance record this month and this includes vocal tracks from Matt Darey with "Beautiful" and Alice Deejay with "Will I Ever". Chicane had the double a-side "No Ordinary Morning / Halcyon" and Mauro Picotto had "Iguana" which are the best trance records this month.
Not a bad rap record this month either, in fact they all get full marks. There's "The Real Slim Shady" by Eminem which was the lead single from his "The Marshall Mathers LP" album. De La Soul returned teaming up with Redman on "Oooh". Ol Dirty Bastard charted with "Got Your Money".
R&B was looking pretty good too. We had the final Top 40 hit for En Vogue with "The Riddle". There was the Top 40 debut for Lucy Pearl whose members included former En Vogue member Dawn Robinson. Aaliyah charted with "Try Again" which was decent and even British group Damage had an alright single with "Ghetto Romance". The only record letting the genre down was "Jumpin Jumpin" by Destiny's Child which is predictably crap.
Speaking of crap it's time to name the worst record for this month. It comes from Girl Thing who were being heavily promoted as the next Spice Girls at the time even though I'm the only one who seems to remember them. Their debut single "Last One Standing" flopped (i.e. didn't top the charts) and this pretty much spelt the end for them.
Here's a list of the records with the best on top, worst at the bottom and the good ones in green, OK ones in amber and rubbish ones in red (and in no particular order):
Here's a look at the chart:
This isn't the best July of the 21st century because July 2001 was better, just.
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